Abstract Topics
Addressing ethical challenges in various types of researches
- Covid-19 research
- Vaccine research
- Genomic research/Gene editing
- Geographical/ environmental/natural or human disaster research
- Social science research
- During pandemics
- In the emergency settings (e.g,, natural disasters, conflicts, etc).
- Research involving vulnerable groups (refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless persons, children, etc.)
- Data sharing between countries
- Ethics of research on biological samples
- Biobanks
- Implementation research
- Health systems research
- Equity and Justice Issues in Research
Issues in Governance
- Establishment of national ethics committees
- Enhancing national drug regulatory agencies
- Establishing offices of research integrity
Promoting research ethics educatio
- Pedagogy
- Advancing Responsible conduct in research
- Measures to avoid plagiarism
- Publication ethics
Best practices of research ethics committees
- Challenges of a single REC review
- Balancing data privacy vs. data sharing in health research
- Improving quality of ethics review (assessment forms, reviewing SAEs, protocol violation, continuing review, site visits, etc.)
- Accreditation efforts
- Improving various types of informed consent (individual vs. administrative consent, broad consent, electronic informed consent, etc.)
